15/08/2026
BREAKING: LOL! Jimmy Kimmel just won a Peabody Award and used his acceptance speech to laugh in Trump’s face.
Jimmy Kimmel picked up a Peabody Award last night — and turned his acceptance speech into one of the most gloriously defiant moments in recent American comedy.
Standing on stage with journalists who exposed Trump-era immigration abuses and prison conditions, a teacher who challenged Putin, and documentarians covering Vietnam War protests, Kimmel opened with classic self-deprecation:
“I’ve never felt dumber than I do right now, being on stage with this group of people who expose the horrors of ICE, prison abuse, and protests against the Vietnam War, a teacher who took on Putin. I called our president Fatty Shack. And Blob the Builder. And Liger Woods and the Hungry Hungry Hypocrite. Our fondling father, Mara Lardo. Nelson Tandela. And Nostra Du***ss. And somehow we got a Peabody out of that.”
Then the tone shifted. The room went quiet.
“Making jokes about the president in America shouldn’t win you a prize,” he said. “We have the right, guaranteed by the Constitution, to criticize and satirize our leaders. This is a right that many of us take for granted. It’s one that I took for granted for the first 57 years of my life until September of last year when the FCC delivered a very unpleasant surprise.”
Trump’s FCC chairman Brendan Carr had opened an investigation into Kimmel as part of a wider effort to use federal regulators against media critics, prompting ABC/Disney to briefly pull his show. What happened next, Kimmel said, shocked him even more than the attack itself.
“I watched as millions of people, even some from across the aisle, objected. They spoke up. They marched. They canceled their subscriptions to Star Wars because they refused to allow our freedoms to be bulldozed like the East Wing of the White House. You sent a message that we do care and that we will stand up and that we will not stand by when comedy and journalism and dissent are censored and regulated and criminalized.”
He closed with a list of thank-yous that will be remembered: “Thank you to Donald Trump, our commander-in-thief, Abriscam Lincoln, Orange Julius Caesar, Greedy McGolfy, D***y McGropy, and Pumpkin McPornhumper. Thank you for inspiring us to fight for our freedom of speech.”
The First Amendment is not negotiable. And neither, apparently, is Jimmy Kimmel.
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